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“I will continue to empower and encourage my staff to perform at their best as I have done for the last decade. I will continue to advocate for my clients, embracing new technology and being open to business and industry changes”
Ken Dixon,
Dixon Insurance Services
“We are the little engine that could,” says Darren Ryan, 36, a financial planner with Ryco Financial in St. John’s, NL.
His father, Frank P. Ryan, is a five-star master builder with Manulife. When the younger Ryan joined his father’s practice in 2011, he had just obtained an MBA with a strong focus on investments and finance. His mother was the only employee, juggling phone calls and photocopying and helping build a client base. Regardless, his father – a 35+ year veteran of the industry – urged him to get two applications a week, every single week, and always put the client’s best interest first.
Now, a dozen years later, the firm:
20 Crosbie Place, 4th Floor, Beothuk Bldg., St. John’s, NL A1B 3N7
709 722 4100
dryan@ryco.ca
linkedin.com/in/darrenryan5
Darren Ryan
Financial Planner
Ryco Financial
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“To be able to give back to the community is rewarding and fulfilling. I am honoured to be in a position where I can raise funds for those less fortunate and in need”
Ken Dixon,
Dixon Insurance Services
2015
2016
2018
2019
2021
Obtained CFP designation
2015
Received Young Advisor Award from the Knowledge Bureau
2016
Became a member of CALU
2018
Qualified for MDRT
2019
Qualified for MDRT Top of the Table
Named one of the Top 25 Advisors by Manulife Securities Insurance
Three-time qualifier for MDRT Top of the Table
2021
Assistant Vice President and Senior Broker at MJ Hall & Company since 2018
Present
Milestones
Aug 2022
Milestones
Sept 2021
Feb 2022
Apr 2022
Jul 2022
Aug
2022
Suncorp Bank introduces Solar Home Bonus offer for customers who are choosing renewable energy for their homes
Sept 2021
Month-on-month market share growth commences
Feb 2022
Suncorp Bank wins the Canstar award for most outstanding value in investment loans
Apr 2022
Suncorp Bank wins Money Magazine’s Bank of the Year and Business Bank of the Year awards for the fifth year in a row
Jul 2022
Suncorp Bank’s turnaround times are the lowest they have ever been. The lender becomes Australia’s first certified carbon neutral bank for both its operation and transaction services
Aug 2022
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employs 10 people – five advisors and five staff
services approximately 800 households with $240 million assets under management (AUM)
maintains 140 employee benefits clients
has an over $1 billion face amount in life insurance protecting Canadians
“We have doubled in size three times in the last 12 years through organic growth only,” says Ryan. “I have no idea how far our small family business will grow, but my goal is two applications per week for our most recent junior advisor, to help him get started like my father helped me.”
Ryan says Ryco Financial's “BHAG” (Big, Hairy, Audacious Goal) is to grow to $1 billion AUM and 300 group clients within the next 10 years.
Understandably, a lot of Ryan’s time is taken up with training and mentoring new staff to support the company’s rapid growth. Now, he spends almost as much time with employees as he does with clients.
The operation remains a family affair – treating family and coworkers like, well, family. And one of his greatest achievements, he says, was recruiting his brother, Frank J. Ryan, to work with him back in 2016. Frank has been a tremendous asset and the key driver behind Ryco Financial’s employee benefits success.
Ryan says his strongest quality professionally remains “dependability, hands down. Both my clients and staff can depend on me to get things done.” In addition, he has a strong work ethic and is dedicated to providing the best unbiased financial advice.
And he remains committed to building the business one application at a time. “My personal goal is to be better than I was yesterday – every day,” he says. “This includes continuously striving for more designations and continuing education. I strive for personal growth every single day.”
In addition to his 40 Under 40 award, Ryan achieved Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT) Top of the Table for each of the last three years consecutively.
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